Emphasise the point that the most important thing when you set out on your car trip is not to get to work on time, or drop the kids off, or whatever. It's to not drive into something that you shouldn't drive into. And part of the campaign is to shame those drivers who do drive into something that they shouldn't.

Emphasise the point that the most important thing when you set out on your car trip is not to get to work on time, or drop the kids off, or whatever. It's to not drive into something that you shouldn't drive into. And part of the campaign is to shame those drivers who do drive into something that they shouldn't.

But then what will all the car insurance companies do with their 'oops' sorry just an accident advertisements....

Emphasise the point that the most important thing when you set out on your car trip is not to get to work on time, or drop the kids off, or whatever. It's to not drive into something that you shouldn't drive into. And part of the campaign is to shame those drivers who do drive into something that they shouldn't.

Emphasise the point that the most important thing when you set out on your car trip is not to get to work on time, or drop the kids off, or whatever. It's to not drive into something that you shouldn't drive into. And part of the campaign is to shame those drivers who do drive into something that they shouldn't.

But then what will all the car insurance companies do with their 'oops' sorry just an accident advertisements....

I saw a bad example of this last night. Big black pretend 4wd wanting to turn off a major road left into a side st. Only problem...woman riding her bicycle home just in front of her. Serious...at the point of the intersection, the cyclist was a bike length in front. So what does pretend 4wd do? Move ahead, and turn in in front of cyclist. Slowly, but with no intention of losing. Then down the wrong way of the street. Cyclist just stopped and let her....what else could she do? I personally dealt with the pretend 4wd with my real 4wd down there. Worst I’ve ever seen.

fat and old wrote:I saw a bad example of this last night. Big black pretend 4wd wanting to turn off a major road left into a side st. Only problem...woman riding her bicycle home just in front of her. Serious...at the point of the intersection, the cyclist was a bike length in front. So what does pretend 4wd do? Move ahead, and turn in in front of cyclist. Slowly, but with no intention of losing. Then down the wrong way of the street. Cyclist just stopped and let her....what else could she do? I personally dealt with the pretend 4wd with my real 4wd down there. Worst I’ve ever seen.

Shocking, but we've all been there. That "dive in front then turn immediately" trick at roundabouts and intersections - always a good way to test your reflexes

whether you’re a driver, occupant, pedestrian or cyclist, roughly 90% of what causes death on Australia’s roads is driver behaviour.

I'm going to add that little fact to the fact that drivers at at fault in almost 80% of car vs bike incidents.

When you are driving your car, you are not stuck IN traffic - you ARE the traffic!!!

"No collision events were recorded. A total of 91 potentially unsafe cyclist-interactions wereidentified. In the majority of events (93.4%), the behaviour of the driver led to the event. The mostcommon event type was left turn (37.3%) which involved a driver turning left across the path of thecyclist, drivers turning across cyclists’ path from the adjacent direction (32.9%). Unexpectedlyopened vehicle doors accounted for 17.6% of cyclist-driver interactions. In the majority of allevents, a crash was avoided due to the evasive actions taken by cyclists."

lets repeat that last bit " In the majority of allevents, a crash was avoided due to the evasive actions taken by cyclists."

meanwhile I did read thru the comments in TheAge (know your enemy) and all the usual got mentioned but no comment from what I could see on "presumed liability" either too difficult to comprehend or maybe the average cyclist hater is in favour of it

fat and old wrote:I saw a bad example of this last night. Big black pretend 4wd wanting to turn off a major road left into a side st. Only problem...woman riding her bicycle home just in front of her. Serious...at the point of the intersection, the cyclist was a bike length in front. So what does pretend 4wd do? Move ahead, and turn in in front of cyclist. Slowly, but with no intention of losing. Then down the wrong way of the street. Cyclist just stopped and let her....what else could she do? I personally dealt with the pretend 4wd with my real 4wd down there. Worst I’ve ever seen.

Shocking, but we've all been there. That "dive in front then turn immediately" trick at roundabouts and intersections - always a good way to test your reflexes

Nah, what made this stand out was that there was no “dive in front” sorta thing. More like “pull up next to bike, let bike see me then just turn into bike, all in slo-mo”. Was really bizarre.

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